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Schizoaffective Disorder

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Schizoaffective disorder sits at the crossroads of psychosis and mood pathology — a single illness in which the criteria for both schizophrenia and a major mood episode are met, yet psychosis must also exist independently of the mood disturbance. It is the classic "in-between" diagnosis: prognostically better than schizophrenia, worse than a pure mood disorder, and a perennial favourite for examiners because the temp…

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